Judy Davis Net Worth

Judy Davis's Quotes

• [on working with David Lean] There was a touch of the bully about him - he'd take it out on the people who were the weakest and most dependent.
• When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was, I thought well, I suppose it is. It is if you get to play Macbeth or Hamlet. But who wants to play bloody Lady Macbeth or Ophelia? And it struck me that most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
• I was always terribly shy, so a great thing that acting has done for me has forced me out of myself and made me more generous.
• I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
• "It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball. And then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella." (on being an Oscar nominee)

Interesting Facts about Judy Davis

1. Has a son, Jack Friels (born 1987), and a daughter, Charlotte Friels (born 1997).
2. Attended drama school with Mel Gibson. They played Romeo and Juliet together.
3. Trained at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts). Her fellow students included Mel Gibson, Colin Friels and Dennis Olsen.
4. Attended a Catholic convent school in her hometown of Perth, Australia.
5. Served as a member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1993.
6. She was a part of the movement dubbed the "Australian New Wave" by the press. They were a group of filmmakers and performers who emerged from Down Under at about the same time in the early 1980's and found work in other parts of the world. Other members included actor Mel Gibson and directors George Miller and Gillian Armstrong.
7. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Insignificance (Actress of the Year in a New Play, 1982).
8. Her family can trace its ancestry back to the original 1831 British settlement in Perth.
9. Famously clashed with director David Lean on the set of A Passage to India (1984).
10. One of her most famous films is also one of her least favorite: My Brilliant Career (1979). Although it propelled her to major stardom, she was miserable during its filming and cannot stand to watch it today.
11. She was among the cast members of the George Sluizer film Dark Blood (2012) that was filmed in 1993 and was left unfinished by star River Phoenix's 1993 death.
12. Forbidden to see movies as a child.
13. Nominated for the Helpmann Award (Australia's equivalent of the Tony Award) for Victory (Best Actress in a Play, 2004).
14. Appeared with her husband Colin Friels in several films, including Hoodwink (1981), Kangaroo (1986), High Tide (1987), and The Man Who Sued God (2001). They have also frequently appeared together on stage.
15. Fellow Australian actresses Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Rose Byrne and Toni Collette have cited Davis as a major influence on their own careers.
16. She played Peter Weller's wife in both Naked Lunch (1991) and The New Age (1994).
17. Has protested Australia's involvement in the war with Iraq.
18. In 2002, took out an "apprehended violence order" against her husband, Colin Friels. She was reportedly cut during an argument about a newspaper article during which a table was broken. The order did not require the couple to be separated.
19. Once said that the one role she wanted but didn't get was Debra Winger's part in The Sheltering Sky (1990).
20. She began filming Celebrity (1998) less than two weeks after giving birth to her daughter Charlotte. During production on the film, her husband Colin Friels contracted pancreatic cancer and nearly died.